Thread: TOT free fiber optic upgrade.

I don't know if this info will help many but ............... Popped into TOT yesterday to pay der bill and was told they're doing a promotion to upgrade all customers, on application, to fiber optics free of charge. Normal upgrade price is/was 1,600 Baht.
Don't know how long promotion is on for.

FTTX or FTTH?

Is there a difference, other than the spelling?

Sorry, yea,

Fiber To The Home

Fiber To The X

One is to the house, and the other is fiber to wherever the fuck they want it to be, then copper to the house. Typically.

X is usually the nearest "Exchange" then transitions to copper.

Fiber to the house typically gets a fiber modem and different setup.

Fiber to the X is usually copper to the home and a standard copper modem/router.

Just an overview of course. This is Thai-lan

TOT was more or less forced into doing it for free. 3BB, True and AIS all have already offered the same deal.

Originally Posted by Slick

Fiber to the house typically gets a fiber modem and different setup. Fiber to the X is usually copper to the home and a standard copper modem/router.

Now you've fcuked me. I'll have to wait til they do my upgrade to say which one it is.
I only live in a village and I suppose there is only one set up. From a farang who lives nearby he says his is fast as fook. If he recommends it then............

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Now you've fcuked me. I'll have to wait til they do my upgrade to say which one it is.

Ask him what the router he has it. Model number off of it is enough to look up.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

From a farang who lives nearby he says his is fast as fook. If he recommends it then............

Go for it. Not a bad thing

There are a some other posters here that are way more switched on than me on this subject. Hopefully they will chime in as well.

Im on 3BB FTTX with twisted pair copper to the house and a VDSL router. 50 mbps.

In Oz the fibre carrier NBN are estimating $600 JUST FOR A QUOTE to get fibre to the home. (FTTP). Currently most houses are connected FTTN (fibre to the node) which is a junction somewhere in or near your street. It is then connected through the existing copper telephone wires or in my case my existing optus cable.

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-c...o-fibre-401584

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Although I suspect the lower case x in this case is like the ones used to denote any numbers like the car is 890,xxx Baht.

Fiber to the x (FTTX) is a generic term for any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to provide all or part of the local loop used for last mile telecommunications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_to_the_x

They did ours for free a tear ago. Monthly increased however, but only by 100baht.

I was skeptical about it coming all the way to the house but it did and it's very good.

Originally Posted by crackerjack101

I was skeptical about it coming all the way to the house but it did and it's very good.

Was it a little, super small black cable that went to the house? Kinda rigid, but still bendy & really small?

Edit:

Sounds like a riddle or some shit

Being serious.

So basically by replacing large swathes of worn out copper with fibre, they're squeezing the max out of DSL then?

Originally Posted by Slick

Fiber To The Home

my TOT and TRue are fibre to the modem ( or technically to the small FOBOT - fibre breakout terminal )

Originally Posted by Slick

Was it a little, super small black cable

don't be racist - one is a yellow fibre

but yes - good old plastic right to when you want it

yellow cable goes into a white box named a ZTE and then some Chinese figures and then there's a white lead going into another white box with 2 antenna on it.

I'm not very technically adept but I do know it works and a 1.5 gb movie takes under 8 minutes to download.

Originally Posted by baldrick

my TOT and TRue are fibre to the modem

Yep I had True FiberTTH with a Fiber Modem in the house. Ditched it for 3BB FTTX.

Originally Posted by baldrick

one is a yellow fibre

Yeah the fiber one is yellow, or green. There are different wires I've seen them use to get it all to the 'house' though.

The black (with steel messenger) small cable with twisted pair copper:



I have this one going straight to a VDSL router ^

The black (with steel messenger) small fiber line:



Both strung up all over the place like this:



Both were sold as 'fiber'. The True one was setup like crackerjack says for me.

My 3BB FTTX Copper line was WAY faster than the True FTTH I had. No idea why.

The pics shown are just vague likenesses - and I'm not an expert

Originally Posted by Slick

and I'm not an expert

You said it not me.

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

You said it not me.

Well yeah, I thought that was clear enough considering it said "slick" up there within the post.

Anything else? Feel free to contribute if I'm wrong anywhere.

Thats what the disclaimer was for. People like yourself.

So what's the difference between Fiber and VDSL?

And why are the the same price with 3BB?
Fiber 50/10 - 590 baht
VDSL 30/10 - 590 baht.

What's 3BB ?

broadband internet 3BB ?????????????????????? ????????

My TRUE "Fibre" is a coax cable in the house. TOT is still running on (A)DSL

We got it months ago in Cha-Am. Fiber all the way to the PCP.
The PCP is also fed by a fiber link so, all the way to the exchange.

Right here it is. TOT are doing FTTX free upgrade. There after per month

20/10 Mbps 500 Baht
30/15 Mbps 590
50/20 Mbps 700
80/20 Mbps 750
100/20 Mbps 800
150/30 Mbps 990
200/80 Mbps 1,200

Which one is adequate?

the problem is not the ADSL or Fiber, it's the fucking government proxy that slow it all down